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PARK AND CEMETERY 
RECEIVING VAULT, NORTH BURIAL GROUND, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
North Burial Ground Receiving Vault, Providence, R. I. 
The city council of Providence, R. I., has appropri- 
ated $30,000 and let contracts for the erection of the 
receiving vault shown on this page for the North Bur- 
ial Ground in that city. The plans were furnished 
by Architects Martin and Hall, of Providence, whose 
design was selected in competition. The building will 
have a receiving room at the front about 40 feet by 20 
feet, entered through a wide doorway and lighted by 
a dome light in the ceiling. This room is to be used 
for chapel purposes temporarily and until a separate 
chapel is constructed. The receiving room will be al- 
most entirely above ground, while the catacombs ad- 
joining and opening from the receiving room through 
wide doorways will run back into the side hill, en- 
tirely underground. The catacombs will be arranged 
with two separate corridors, ten feet wide, each lighted 
by two dome lights, and each section containing 96 re- 
ceptacles, 192 in all. 
These receptacles are to be constructed of brick and 
slate, each entirely separate from any other, of vary- 
ing widths and 8-0 long and closed at the end with 
marble slabs with proper handles, fastenings and 
numbers. Each receptacle can be sealed tight if de- 
sired. The receptacles are well drained and ventilated 
and arranged so as to be thoroughly flushed when nec- 
essary. 
A portion of the old receiving tomb is to be retained 
and can be entered from a doorway at the end of the 
corridors in the catacombs. 
Careful attention has been given to ventilation and 
